【題目】Today Dante had a small skating competition in his class. Before we went to the competition, I asked him if he wanted to wear something nice for the competition and he said, “Who cares? it’s not important.” When we showed up at the rink(溜冰場(chǎng)), we found that most of the kids were dressed up. One boy who was around nine years old was my son’s friend, wearing a dress shirt and a pink vest. I walked over to his mother saying how beautifully dressed he was. But his mother said, “He didn’t want to dress up. He said that this competition was not important for him to dress up.”

I thought it was interesting that neither Dante nor his friend viewed the competition as important and neither wanted to dress up. I started to wonder if this was how a child learned what was “important” and what wasn’t.

Interestingly, this boy won two medals and Dante won none.

Parents and teachers often instill (灌輸) what they think is important: then children will accept the opinions of the adults. Gradually, they grow up stressing about how they look, how many medals they get, what color the medals are, how good their grades are, what a great “job” they can get in life, what a big house they can live in... etc.

Dante taught me an important lesson today. He taught me what was unimportant. Life goes on long after the medal ceremony whether you win a medal or not.

1Why didn’t Dante want to dress up for the competition?

A. He had no proper clothes.

B. He had no time to dress up.

C. His mother didn’t prepare clothes for him.

D. He thought he didn’t need to dress up.

2What does Paragraph 5 want to tell us?

A. Children stress about many things in life.

B. Adults may instill wrong ideas into children.

C. Children are always influenced by adults.

D. Adults should set good examples to children.

3What lesson did the author learn from her son?

A. Winning medals makes people proud.

B. Not all things are that important in life.

C. Fairness is more important in competitions.

D. Kids have a better understanding of life than adults.

【答案】

1D

2B

3B

【解析】作者通過(guò)陪伴兒子參加班里一個(gè)小型滑冰比賽,從兒子身上學(xué)到不是所有的事情都重要的道理。

1D

細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第一段最后兩句“He didn’t want to dress up. He said that this competition was not important for him to dress up.”可知,他認(rèn)為他不需要打扮。故選D。

2B

推理判斷題。根據(jù)第五段Dante taught me an important lesson today. He taught me what was unimportant.可知,第五段想告訴我們成年人可能會(huì)把錯(cuò)誤的想法灌輸給孩子。故選B。

3B

推理判斷題。根據(jù)最后一段Dante taught me an important lesson today. He taught me what was unimportant. Life goes on long after the medal ceremony whether you win a medal or not.可知,作者從兒子身上學(xué)到不是所有的事情都重要。故選B。

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